Top of the National Audit Office/Office of Government Commerce publication “List of Common Causes of Project Failure” is:
Lack of clear link between the project and the organisation’s key strategic priorities, including agreed measures of success.
In 2006, we conducted a study using Freedom Of Information (FOI) requests [...]
If you want to avoid wasted time, effort, and cost acquiring information to support decision making:
Identify what decision are you trying to support. Define what you are attempting to measure in observable consequences. Work out exactly how this thing being measured impacts on the decision. Identify what you already know now, with [...]
Strategies for the Second Half of The Information Age
Our current economic mess is not as unique it appears. It is part of a cycle of great surges that socio-economists have identified when techno-economic innovation occurs. These theories first emerged in 1925 in Nikolai Kondratiev’s work on Major Economic Cycles. He never got [...]
Not normally news I would share on a web post, but this is no ordinary plug. Some of you may have seen news articles in the last couple of days about the amazing and very welcome Mu plug. Today mine arrived so I though I would share my initial impressions.
Product designer and illustrator Min-Kyu [...]
We do a lot of Information Architecture (IA) in i-logue. It is one of our core skills and we believe the IA approach is fundamental to a great many information management situations. We also believe that it is a subject frequently ignored on many programmes and projects.
I was therefore delighted when
This Forbes article on the World’s Most Surprising School System started a thought on some current management practices. We see a lot of formal emphasis within current IT management around accountability, however trust is rarely mentioned. Within the UK military environment, trust is such an important factor that is formally defined in
Finding Help When You Need It Most
Having a particular interest in Information Retrieval and more broadly in Information Management I have for some time been interested in how information is managed in crisis or disaster situations. These are information management situations “on the edge” where, in the extreme, getting it right can save lives. [...]
I have become increasingly aware of social media tools recently and as result have been investigating some of the capabilities that are starting to appear to help analyse social trends. In this post I will take a look as some of the more interesting offerings I have discovered in my journey to social media awareness.
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How government could use social media to improve its response to public crises
Over the last couple of months I have been watching with interest how social media has been used during a number of crisis events and how governments have reacted to and made use of these technologies. It has been an instructive period [...]
It technology terms Information Retrieval (IR) is still at the “toddler” stage of development. However, rapid progress is starting to be made and there are many innovative and exciting IR techniques and tools emerging to help us tackle the information overload. These new approaches are not just to be found in the large, complex corporate [...]
